A mother has lost a High Court battle in her bid to use her dead daughter’s frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild.

A mother has lost a UK High Court battle in her bid to use her dead daughter’s frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild.

A mother is launching a legal battle for possession of her dead daughter’s frozen eggs so that she can become pregnant with her own grandchild.

Google and Facebook will pay for the process so female employees can delay childbirth and prolong their careers, but is it ethical, asks Sharon Ni Chonchuir.

A Cork fertility clinic that successfully used a treatment designed to reduce the risk of couples passing on an inherited condition to their children has recorded a second pregnancy using this procedure.

Sperm donors up to the age of 45 are just as likely to conceive children as those in their 20s, a large study has shown.

A widow who won a high court fight to preserve her late husband’s sperm was last night “downhearted” after the UK fertility regulator was given permission to try to overturn the ruling.

A widow who wants to preserve her late husband’s sperm may have to stage a fight in the UK's Court of Appeal.

A young widow has launched a High Court fight to preserve her late husband’s sperm.

A woman who cannot be named has launched a legal battle in Britain for the right to “harvest” her seriously-ill partner’s sperm so that she can have his children.

Misjudgments by individuals combined with systemic failures led to RTÉ’s grave error to wrongly accuse a priest of fathering the child of a teenage girl he was accused of raping.

TWO embryos are better than one for maximising the chances of having an IVF baby at any age, a study has found.

The former controller of BBC Northern Ireland has been appointed to investigate the defamation of a priest on RTÉ.

Guidelines for assisted human reproduction must be cemented by legislation, writes Catherine Shanahan.

AN IVF couple compensated by an NHS trust after their last embryo was implanted in the wrong woman by mistake said yesterday they may use the money to try for another child.

The first British baby genetically selected to be free of a breast cancer gene has been born.

FOR the first time in Britain, researchers at Newcastle University have created human-animal hybrid embryos, amid an ongoing political row about a disputed embryo research bill that is due to be put to parliament next month.

The British fertility regulator today gave the green light for the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos.

A 72-YEAR-OLD man is to become a sperm donor for his own “grandchild”, it was reported yesterday.

ONE of the scientists behind the bid to create human-animal embryos said their work could help treat human diseases.

The fertility regulator agreed in principle today that British scientists should be able to create human-animal embryos.

BRITISH scientists are poised to press ahead with controversial plans to create hybrid human and rabbit embryos.

BRITAIN’S fertility watchdog yesterday postponed a decision on whether to allow women to donate eggs for cloning research until it had gathered opinion from experts and members of the public.

BRITAIN’S fertility watchdog has approved the extension of embryo gene screening.

THE spectre of babies being created for “spare parts” was brought closer yesterday, as the British House of Lords declared “designer babies” can be used to treat siblings with genetic disorders.

THE scientist who created Dolly the Sheep was yesterday granted a licence to clone human embryos in an attempt to find a cure for motor neurone disease.

British scientists have been granted permission to clone human embryos for medical research, it was announced today.

PARENTS of seriously ill children whose only hope of survival is the creation of a “saviour sibling” will be overjoyed at yesterday’s decision by Britain’s fertility watchdog.

AN IRISH couple were last night celebrating the decision by Britain’s fertility watchdog to broaden its rules on embryo screening to allow the birth of “designer babies” to cure sick siblings.

The British fertility watchdog was meeting today to consider relaxing its rules on embryo screening to allow the birth of “designer babies” to cure sick siblings.

The British fertility watchdog may have to relax its rules on “designer babies” because of mounting pressure from doctors and parents, a leading specialist said today.

Human embryo cells have been used to treat rats with symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in a move that has important implications for therapeutic cloning, it was revealed today.

A baby born using sperm which was frozen for 21 years is believed to mark a world record in fertility treatment, British researchers said today.

A leading British scientist announced today that he wants to clone human embryos, saying it would be “immoral” not to carry out the research.

MOVES to prevent couples from being allowed to choose the sex of their baby for reasons other than medical concerns were welcomed by doctors, fertility experts and ethical watchdogs in Britain yesterday.

MOVES to prevent couples being allowed to choose the sex of their baby for reasons other than medical concerns were welcomed in Britain yesterday by doctors, fertility experts and ethics watchdogs.

A BOY had the wrong father for 13 years after a fertility clinic which treated his mother used another man’s sperm by mistake, it was reported yesterday.

BRITAIN’S first genetic “designer” baby has been born to a couple desperate to cure their young son, who has a rare form of anaemia.

THE first British research licence of its kind permitting a technique that creates embryonic stem cells from human eggs has been granted to the scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep, it was announced yesterday.

The creator of Dolly the sheep hopes to lodge the first application to clone human embryos in Britain within six months, it emerged today.

AS a child I was particularly chilled by the story of Pandora’s Box. In Greek mythology Pandora and her husband Epimetheus are visited by Jupiter’s messenger, Mercury, who gives them a box for safe keeping.

A further six British couples want permission to create a ‘‘designer baby’’ following a ruling by Britain’s fertility watchdog.